Hm, it seems there is a lot of confusion but I think understand better.
One guy is reporting that if you have an actual BA6592F chip, you need the amps. I have the S-ENC chip with only 4 useless numbers on it, which, since it worked right away without anything, means I don't need the amps in my case (duh, other guys were reporting dark colors, mine worked pretty great)! Oh, and in the images I posted above, that chip is a S-ENC BA6594AF, slightly different number and it's working for the guy, which means it is already amplifying the signals for near proper usage strength, etc. Many board revisions and changes here, so that is the deal.
But, there was talk of needing 1k Ohm "pull-down" resistors. What do you make of this image ?
I think that might be more applicable in my case, though I dunno what the heck they're wanting to do to the luma signal. I am betting that if I tap the luma from the chip, it's going to work fine. Think I'm gonna do that now actually. But as you can see, it suggests a 1K Ohm resistor to ground for R-Y (Output) and B-Y (Output) pins. Moreover, with the Y/Luma (Output), pin 23, it wants a complex circuit using the luma input signal that enters the chip from pin 9! Why are they wanting that done, what difference would it cause and really, isn't the S-Video Luma the same as what an analog component signal uses? I kinda suspect it'd be more proper to do it like that and that maybe it'd make the whole component signal more compatible, aside from the 240p issue.
So, what I think is the deal is, technically, seems like the the Component video signal is supposed to be nearly ready for use by default without amps, no? I got a great picture (though a little low colorwise), and it seems those that found they had to use amps were just getting a dark one with another type of chip, though similar, etc. I dunno... whatever, it works pretty good in my case without anything and it's been somewhat interesting modernizing my good ole SNES, so not entirely a waste of time!
EDIT: Yeah, here's what he said (Ace): "I don't get it: it works on the S-ENC, but it doesn't work correctly on the actual BA6592F ...... I was right. You need an amp for the real BA6592F. With no amp on the B-Y and R-Y outputs,
you won't get any color. You also shouldn't take Luminance straight from the encoder, but rather pin 7 of the multi-A/V out as it too needs an amp which is already present on the motherboard."
